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We offer a host of exciting and challenging jobs to help you make the most of your talent and potential.
A dynamic, growing market, a supportive Top Employer and a diverse range of fulfilling roles await you at ista, a global market player that makes buildings climate-friendly, safe and comfortable.
ista repeatedly received the Top Employers Certification in many different countries. In addition to these specific awards, we can proudly bear the title of Top Employer Europe. Once a year, the Amsterdam-based Top Employers Institute recognises companies and organisations that meet particularly high quality criteria as employers. A jury of experts assesses different areas of HR work in ten categories, for example recruitment processes, modern forms of collaboration or staff development.
Over 5,500 employees in 24 countries currently enjoy the passion for innovation and excellent benefits that characterize our organization. Would you like to become one of them? Just go ahead and find your job!
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If you are interested in a country that is not mentioned below, please also visit the country’s local websites. There, you will find further local vacancies and information about the local application process.
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Career at ista
We offer a host of exciting and challenging jobs to help you make the most of your talent and potential.
Professionals
ista values the know-how and perspectives that you as experienced professional contribute. Hence, we offer diverse challenges for you to boost your personal and professional growth as well as the success of istas business. Take the chance to quickly assume responsibility in a highly successful medium-sized company and build istas future together with colleagues across the globe.
You have the opportunity to use and advance your skills in specialist departments which are either responsible for the entire international group or part of one of our more than 20 highly successful local companies. Explore our job board for the most recent job offers or have a look at the local career websites. Please note, some of our local companies publish job offers only on their local career websites.
Training & Development
We want our employees to be successful and enjoy what they are doing. So we provide a professional environment where staff work together on equal terms. We support our employees with a systematic vocational and further training programme so they can develop their individual potential to the full. We focus on activities and programmes which are geared to the individuality of each person. The resultant quality and satisfaction of our professionals prove us right and encourage us to identify and systematically develop special talents by promoting them.
Programms for Professionals
Global Mobility
Global Mobility facilitates ista’s continuous internationalization. It does not only support the development of our employees but also the company.
Transparency in the assignment related terms & conditions, promotion of career development and international knowledge transfer are the core elements of Global Mobility.
JUMP – The management development programme
We filled 77 % of our top management positions from our own ranks. Not least of all because, for many years now, we have been systematically selecting our international high potentials to attend an internal management development programme.
Our JUMP participants are supported in a targeted manner in an 18-month programme involving a host of individually tailored training courses. The knowledge acquired enables them to assume general management positions in the future. We offer an international JUMP programme as well as local programmes in many countries.
Cooperations
ista cooperates with prestigious European Business Schools to offer management development to its top management.
Our targeted support for your goals
- Individual HR development through internal and external seminars and coaching
- Extensive range of seminars on the subjects of communication and self-organisation
- Intensive subject-related training courses
- Wide range of language courses
- Management training courses
- Management development programmes
Graduates & Students
Our attitude towards the environment has a strong impact on our lives. At ista we are proud to support a business that helps to shape a more sustainable future. ista offers customers all over the world innovative services and products which help to reduce CO2 emissions and conserve resources. Getting to know this crucial market as a student or graduate is not only exciting but also serves a meaningful purpose.
For us, it is very important that you get the chance to put your qualifications into practice. Coaching on the job, training courses, extensive project work or individual feedback talks are just some elements to support your further development.
Explore our job board for the most recent job offers or have a look at the local career websites. Please note, some of our local companies publish job offers only on their local career websites.
Graduate Trainee Programme
Our 24-month graduate trainee programme offers a career entry for university graduates. In the course of the variable working areas and qualification measures, we want to accomplish that the graduates build and enlarge their company-specific skills and management know-how. In this way, the trainees are encouraged to deepen their interdivisional thinking and acting.
- Finance: You will get to know the different areas of finance of our company and will be intensively involved in the respective departments. A stay abroad in one of our global branches is included.
- Sales: You primarily learn about ista's operative sales activities in all its facets and assume responsibility in this area at an early stage at various locations.
- Operations: You will get to know the most important business processes and be intensively involved in various projects at various locations.
Students
- Degree Thesis: Do you want support for your degree thesis? In Germany and further countries we offer you assistance by professional subject matter experts. In order to apply for a degree thesis, please send us your outline by using the online form for speculative applications or contact the local HR department.
- Internship: Asking questions, deepening your knowledge, working with professionals, gaining experience. An internship at ista involves all that. We believe that you gain most if you work at our company for at least three months - even longer if you want to. Depending on your field of study, you can immerse yourself in a variety of areas – from IT, finance, controlling, marketing and sales to HR.
Work-life Balance
At ista we attach great importance to work-life balance and encourage our employees to lead a healthy and balanced life. Performance, inspiration and personal growth are fueld by periods of relaxation, sport or leisure activities. Therefore, many countries offer various programmes to support fun and health at work.
Some examples of our benefits offered at various locations:
Health Programmes
- Medical examinations e.g. eye tests
- Subsidised membership of fitness studios
- Mobile office massage service
- Flu vaccinations
- Stress management courses and seminars
- Subsidised nutritional advice
- Company runs
- International soccer cup
Flexible working hours
- Flexible working hour arrangements
- Home-office
- Trust-based working time
- Sabbatical
What our employees value in ista as an employer
In our employee opinion surveys, we ask our employees for feedback on what they like and what we can do better. We are pleased that over 80% of our employees worldwide agree with the following statements:
- 'I am proud of the work that I do.'
- 'My direct supervisor cooperates with me in a trustful and respectful manner.'
- 'I can rely on my team if I need assistance with my work load.'
- 'I can effectively apply my knowledge and skills to the work I do.'
Shared values unite
Values represent the very foundation of a company. They express the culture, spirit and way a company runs its business – towards customers, stakeholders, but also towards its employees. The more committed a company is to its values, the stronger its business will perform.
MY commitment:
I actively seek responsibility, autonomously solve my tasks and embrace opportunities for development. I feel encouraged and competent.
OUR success:
We delegate responsibility at all levels and within the scope of a given task. This demonstrates trust in our people and their capabilities.
MY commitment:
I am accountable for my objectives and achieve them pro-actively with dedication. My achievements motivate me.
OUR success:
We stick to promises and consequently pursue our goals. We embrace challenges to ensure our company’s success.
MY commitment:
I consider both my colleagues’ and customers’ interests to establish valuable relationships. I enjoy the collaborative atmosphere I create.
OUR success:
We build sustainable long-term relationships with internal and external stakeholders. We strive for mutual benefits.
MY commitment:
I create a common culture of trust by being respectful, appreciative and open. This environment inspires me.
OUR success:
We communicate in an open and honest way. We acknowledge good ideas and performance. We handle feedback in a constructive way.
MY commitment:
I consider the consequences of my decisions and act deliberately. I am proud because my contribution to the company’s responsibility inspires me.
OUR success:
We align the needs of the economy, environment and society. At the same time we are mindful of our people’s resources.
